Insight into the HR World
From the monthly archives:
A not-so-fun note from a reader:
When I went to work for my former employer he gave me a ten year commitment, he said that he would give me a piece of the company if I stayed ten years. I stayed the ten years and when I asked him to make good he told me that [...]
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So I was sort of thinking back to the beginning of my blogging days and laughing. My first attempt at blogging was undeniably stupid and it is only thanks to the fine folks over at archive.org that we have a copy of that project in 2001. Daily updates, e-mailed newsletters, and everything else a 19 [...]
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Note: This is a guest post from author Heather Johnson (who also did a post on networking as well). If you are interested in doing a guest post or would like me to do a guest post on your blog, contact me.
A study conducted by international consulting firm Randstad and Harris Interactive shows that only [...]
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I like occasionally going through my statistics and figuring out how people get to my site. But when I saw a Google search on “boss sleeping on the job” pointing to my site though, I thought it might be fun as a Friday post to go over the ten most ridiculous search terms that brought [...]
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I swear this hasn’t turned into a sports blog yet but it always seems to go back there for me. I love sports, I love HR and I love analogies so those three things really work for me. My Brett Favre article along with Kris Dunn’s over at Fistful of Talent have slowly attracted the [...]
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Check out the post over on HRM Today about Alexandra Levit’s new book Success for Hire and some of the tips it gives. It is a great read (the book, not my review).
Do you have HRM Today in your feed readeryet ? If not, click here and add it. There are some great articles going [...]
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The Happy Employee made a post about the new book about Results-Only Work Environment and mentioned that absolutely zero HR bloggers had mentioned it. Count me as one of those people who are unsurprised by this revelation.
I know that this is a hard thing to swallow from someone who has very much advocated ROWE in [...]
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In one of the most insulting posts I’ve read in a while, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary to Policy writes a scathing critique of SHRM’s lobbying to delay federal requirements to require E-Verify for certain employers.
I have a problems with SHRM and I’ve disagreed with their lobbying in the past but on this [...]
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If you haven’t been following the Brett Favre unretirement story, bless your heart. From the perspective of an HR person, it is a gut wrenching affair that I hope I never have the pleasure of dealing with. Here is the scenario from my demented HR side:
Your longest serving and best employee (and one of the [...]
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As many of you know, I am big into work/life balance. I have also been lucky enough to work for employers that have valued that as well. Now though, it seems that I am running into a little conundrum because that work/life balance has turned into work/work/life balance and I didn’t even take on a [...]
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